List of wars involving South Yemen

This is a list of wars that South Yemen has been involved in.

Independent South Yemen

Conflict

Combatant 1

Combatant 2

Result

Aden Emergency
(1963–1967)

NLF
FLOSY


South Arabia

Victory

  • Independence of South Yemen.

Al-Wadiah War
(1969)

Saudi Arabia

Defeat

  • Saudi Arabia reoccupies al-Wadiah.

Yemenite War of 1972
(1972)

Cease-fire

  • Yemen's pledge to unify

Ethio-Somali War
(1977–1978)

Ethiopia

Somalia
WSLF

Victory

  • Somali withdrawal from Ogaden.
  • Somalia broke ties with the Second World.

Eritrean War of Independence
(1977–1990)

Ethiopia

ELF

EPLF

Defeat

  • Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.
  • Ethiopia became a landlocked country.

Yemenite War of 1979
(1979)


NDF

Cease-fire

  • Yemen's re-pledge ambition to unify

South Yemen Civil War
(1986)

Ismail's faction

Regime change

  • Toppling of Abdul Fattah Ismail.

Post-unification

Conflict

Combatant 1

Combatant 2

Result

Yemeni Civil War
(1994)

South Yemen

Defeat

  • Reunification of Yemen.

South Yemen insurgency
(2009–)

al-Hirak

Ongoing

  • Separatist insurgency in southern Yemen

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